Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Its summer and EVE is Dead. The usual summer blues or “Damn There’s
Really A World Outside??” has hit and I, like so many, are not loggin in nearly
as much due to conflicts with things like boating, cookouts, sittin round the
firepit of an evening, swimming, wimmen in bikinis!!!, more swimming (due to
wimmen in bikinis!!!), BBQs, travelin to visit fambly, mass consumption of alcoholic
beverages (outside for a change), fambly travelin to visit us, more mass consumption…
you know… :summertime: and this is all normal this time of year… even
basically all of CCP goes on vaca for most of the summer it often seems. Things
just slow down when it gets hot.

For my part, as re EVE, I have been keeping PI running, a good semi-passive
ISK faucet and an easy 30 mins to hour of playtime. I rarely see anyone else on
either, Lethal is on occasionally, but usually he says he’s just doing PI also.
I would like to do some ratting in lowsec, the Clone tags and Mordu BPCs make
it very worthwhile, but I am loath do go solo, much prefer when a few of us are
on and I can call for, or get called in as, backup if PvP occurs.

But, all in all, things have as usual gotten quiet and a bit laid
back as the days grew longer and hotter… I’m still here, still skim the blogs
each day… though I will admit with less enthusiasm than I used to, I really do
miss Jester’s posts… I basically turn to Sugar Kyle for my daily fix now but I find
there is a lot less cross talk and cross posting now that the Roboblogger has gone
dark… real shame there IMHO.

I can’t speak for Ripard, only for myself but the
EVE blogshere has become a lot less interesting over all, I wonder if he truly realized
what an effect he actually had on us all.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

I got this
one from Hermit, here…
If news like this keeps up, I may have to consider keeping tabs on the forums
now.

In this
post in the Features & Ideas forum, “[Summer 2014] Starbase tweaks” CCP
Ytterbium said…

“On the bright side however, we are
working on ways to remove offline Control Towers. It's still in early
design and with our team bandwidth being quite full for Crius, this will have
to wait after that, but it's definitely on the menu.”

Now THIS is
a mechanic I can sink my teeth into! We, especially those of us who live in
Anoikis, have been hoping and praying for this since… well, as long as I have
been ingame. Abandoned offline POSes and their incapped mods litter W-space… some
intentionally or unintentionally abandoned, some due to Corps being evicted or just
podded out w/o hole-cards, scan alts (in scan frigs) permanently in the hole as
a backup.

No matter
how it happens, the simple truth is that because any corp can setup POSes at
every moon in every system in W-space and due to the access issues, IE evictions,
POD outs, need for scanned access BMs, etc., there are possibly literally hundreds
of offline POSes scattered throughout the systems of Anoikis. We have lived long
term in a C2, C3, C6 and now another C3… we have had left over offline POSes in
2 of them… the hole we live in now has one and we’d LOVE to get rid of it…
especially if we could also profit thereby.

Yes, we
could bash it… but DAMN, have you ever done a POS Bash? We are a small yet
feisty corp, we don’t have Dreads or Caps so at best we could field a small
gang of BSes… it would take HOURS. I know, I’ve done it… it SUX. Yet, if you
eject from your ship… ANYONE with the prerequisite skills can simply jump innit
and warp off. Abandoned POSes should be the same only in some way that is
commensurate with how POSes work (or will work after the Corp & Alliance
Roles and Rules Revamp).

Personally,
I prefer something that might go like this…

You find an
offline POS… no active Force Field, armor and hull at 100% and with some defensive
modules, mebbe some others, still anchored and incapped. You would need to be
in a scan frig, fitted with new hacking modules, POS Hacking modules. There
would be some form of new hacking mini-game, but gods please not the random almost
pacman like thing we have now in some sites, but a real code breaking/puzzle solving
type game and maybe new Mods and Skills could apply.

Something
based on the idea of a password or PIN number hack… or maybe an X-ray type of
scan that give you a wireframe view of a circuit, you then select several of
multiple connectors to send a charge or data packet in order to close, open or
bypass a series of logic gates in order to eventually open, close or bypass the
whole circuit to gain access. Or maybe something like a puzzle… a 3D wireframe
or virtual looking puzzle that has to be solved… think a virtual Rubiks Cube or
Tetris not really Rubiks Cube and not really Tetris but you get the idea.

So you have several, say three, of these getting progressively harder to hack but at
the end, quite simply, you gain full Administrative (all Roles) access to the
POS Management Interface and all Attached modules… with one caveat…

If you do not
complete all three hacks in a reasonable amount of time… the self defenses kick
in and the POS assplodes… with a very,
very high Alpha and a radius of… well let’s just say you can’t run the hack
from outside the blast radius mmkay?

So in the
end, with some well balanced risk, let’s say the POS Hacking Modules are, well
expensive… really expensive, enough so the loss of the scan frig, mebbe a new
Special Purpose Frig, so that risk inherent in the cost of the Frig and POS Hacking
modules, if lost, would… to a degree balance out the reward that the sudden acquisition
of a free Planetary Orbital Station Control Tower… mebbe even a Large Faction Control
Tower would bring.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Well, Kronos has dropped and I am pleased as punch. The download
and installation went smoother than ANY patch/expansion I have experienced in my
3.5 years ingame.

The morning of the 3rdI kicked off the d-load and went
to go do some household chores. When I came back, roughly an hour or so later,
the d-load and installation were done and the client was ready to run. Login
went as smoothly as hoped, the client loaded and in gameplay since I have seen
nothing amiss.

So… Kronos, the first of CCPs new patchspansions dropped and what
did we do? We went RATTIN! We live inna C3 with a static Lowsec and this is
ideal for several reasons. (1) A stat low means fewer random tourists as the
lower population in lowsec means fewer player scanning holes, (2) C3s are not
always on the ‘pipe’ to Empire from C4 thru 6s and, now (3) Mordu’s Legion rats
are spawning all over lowsec and dropping very ‘spensive BPCs for the 3 new Mordu’s
Legion ships.

And what is happening, as far as we have seen is pure
awesomesauce. Players know there are potential billions in ISK in those BPCs
and they are foraying into lowsec from all over New Eden and undocking in
numbers we have not seen before. I mean, with the very real possibility of
pocketing several billion ISK with one rat kill, risking ships and PODs are
worth it. This means the potential for PvP has also grown in pace with the
players seeking those ML rats.

That very first night we bagged one of those new Barghests and its
sweet BPC drop… 2 bil ISK for Sov, who very kindly cut me a percentage as I
landed on grid and helped him finish off the flat weird thing. Whattaway to
kick off Kronos!

The next night, the 4th, we had an incursion from a higher class
WH corp through our system… and ended up with a really fun fight on the static.
I was not on comms, so initially I was responding to the chat about what I
thought was a fight ‘outside’ of the stat, I jumped inna ‘Cane and landed right
in the fight! The incursion gang was a Pilgrim, Proteus and x2 Loki, they
jumped and destroyed our Vexor, and we responded with an Ares, the Vex pilot
now inna Ishtar, Blackbird, Geddon and my Cane.

We killed the Pilgrim and one Loki then I believe the other Loki and
the Proteus jumped the hole to lowsec, at least I don’t remember them warping
off and we did have points spread so… What I find really interesting is what I
remember and what the logs show is always different in little interesting ways…

For instance in this fight the logs say I initially attacked the Proteus… I remember the Lokis and Pilgrim, but the logs are clear I spent 40 seconds, a fair piece of time in combat, applying all DPS on the Proteus before switching to the
Pilgrim… yet I don’t remember the Proteus at all but I do remember switching
DPS to the Pilgrim… weird huh?

Anyway, after the initial fight I reshipped to a Broadsword (HIC),
warped back and bubbled up. The Loki pilot we killed had got his POD out and
back to their hole into our system. He had reshipped and returned inna a Drake,
to assist his corpmates to return, he landed in the bubble and, things get
weird here again for me… the logs show the Proteus jumped back in, and again,
for a just few seconds this time, I fought the Proteus… but don’t remember it.
I wonder now if it’s just Protieii I can’t see?

Add to that the fact that the logs
show that the Pilgrim pilot had reshipped to a Geddon and I fought him too…
yet don’t remember targeting a Geddon… but I DO remember getting neuted out,
calling out that I was neuted out and I remember when my CAP bounced back,
getting back into the fight. Now we had I think 2 Geddons of our own on the
field by then so I can see some
potential confusion on my part there, ‘cept of course, I fired on the damned
thing… =\

Anyway, the Drake died and due to my HIC we got his POD too. The
Proteus and Geddon, I believe, were able to warp out to their hole though I
swear I don’t remember it. Well, we kept watch on the static but after
a while we assumed they decided to err of the side of caution until things
calmed down in our hole.

Later that night we went ratting in the lowsec and, besides some
nice bounties we got into a few good fights too. Leathal in an Ares got into a
fight with a Tristan on which I joined in and got point, perfect whoring… lol, before
it assloded. Then Leath, now inna Enyo gets point on a Gnosis and I warped to
assist… the Gnosis was able to destroy Leath’s Enyo but not before I got point
and started in on him. I was still in my Cane and this turned into one of the
closest fights I have ever had.

As a matter of fact, if Sov had not at one point said something
about overheating, I would have lost… We both had point, we were burning and
turning, drones orbiting and we were both stripping shields and armor off of
each other at nearly the same rate finally both going into hull… but I was
going down a bit faster than him. Now all I remember clearly was Sov saying “…something
something…overheat… something something…”

I quickly overheated ALL racks and suddenly
my shields jumped back up to approx 20 to 25%... and that made the difference.
From then on the Gnosis had shields to burn back through while I was still chewing
through his hull, now noticeably faster, until he blew up.

[EDIT: In talking over the fight w/ Sov we realized that my shields bouncing up to 25% from 0% was due to Sov jumping the gate into the system. He was on his way to assist but dint land on grid in time... However, he was our fleet booster, so when he jumped gate, I got fleet boosts, and as he is L5, I got... ta da, a 25% shield boost.... so hurrah for fleet! 'nough said.]

I was ecstatic!! I was also on FIRE!!! LOL… I had about 70% hull left, close to
incap heat damage on several mods and fire and smoke pouring out my ass as I
warped back to the hole…. But I was grinning like an idiot for the rest of the
night… =] I repaired all damage and headed back out in
the same Cane to continue ratting.

The night of the 5th we went ratting the lows again andSov,
inna Ishtar, gets into a fight with the same guy from the Gnosis fight on the
4th, and he's back in another Gnosis… 20 seconds after we engaged him a Moa landed
in support and we took them both down then we went right back to ratting.

So far we haven’t gotten another Modu’s Legion ship… but I expect
we will continue to take full advantage of Traveling Without Moving from
lowsec to lowsec. =]

Them as what follow me...

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